Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change

phytoplankton, 120
in oceans, 120
photosynthesis and, 120
zooplankton and, 120
Pilkey, Orrin, 48, 55–56
on beach erosion, 55–56
on shore retreat, 55
Prosper, Junior, 64–67
on development, in Antigua, 67
on drinking water, in Antigua, 66
Prospero, Joseph, 88–89
Psuty, Norbert, 49
public trust doctrine, 50
shoreline access and, 50

Ramanathan, Veerabhadran, 87–88,
91–92
on Asian brown cloud, 87–88, 91–92
Reagan, Ronald, 56
“regime shifts,” 105
NRC and, 105
renewable energy sources, 2
as alternative energy, 2
development of, 2
Riedel, Jon, 142
Rinaldo, Andrea, 37
on “big gates” project, 37
“Rising Waters: Impacts of the
Greenhouse Effect for the
Netherlands,” 177
Dutch flood control plans in, 177
The Rising Tide: Global Warming and World
Sea Levels(Edgerton), 178
Ronde, John de, 28–29
on waterway infrastructure upgrades
(Netherlands), 28–29
Rosenzweig, Cynthia, 43–44
Russell, Dick, 175, 178–179
research sources for, 178–179
Ryan, John C., 142

Sagarin, Rafe, 112–113, 115–118, 123, 125, 181
Baxter, Chuck, and, 113
temperature studies of, 112
tidepool studies of, 116–117
San Francisco Bay, 123–125
development in, effects of, 123–125
endangered species in, 123–124
government support for, 124
restoration of, 124

salt marshes in, 123

Sanchez, Rick, 165

Sandy Hook, (New Jersey), 47, 51, 57–58

civic rehabilitation in, 57–58

environmentalists and, 58

history of, 57

Saunders, Ronald, 68

Saving America’s Beaches(Douglass), 54, 178

SCE (snow cover extent), 107

IPCC on, change in (Northern

Hemisphere), 107

Schnappers(boat), 159

Science,2, 76, 98, 105, 112, 120

sea ice, 98, 107–108

benefits of, 108

reduction of, Arctic region, 98, 107

serpulorbus(tube snail), 113–114, 116

Baxter, Mark, on, 113–114

overgrowth of, 113–114

Shameem, Shaista, 137

Shinn, Eugene, 90

A Small Place(Kincaid), 61

Smith, Ken, 55

sockeye salmon, 150–153

in Canada, 150–153

mortality rates for, 153

spawning behavior of, 151–152

water temperatures, effect on, 151–152

Sommen, Jeroen van der, 29

Soolook, Anthony, Jr., 96–97, 109

South Cascade Glacier (U.S.), 142

decrease in, 142

Spillius, Alex, 86

on pollution, In Asia, 86

Spittlehouse, Dave, 153

Springsteen, Bruce, 51

Sridhar, Lalitha, 84

SST (sea surface temperature), 107

increase in, 107

Stallone, Sylvester, 75

Stenobranchus leucopsarus(fish), 121

in California Current, 121

species decline, 121

Surfer’s Environmental Alliance, 48

Tager, Jeremy, 130–133, 181

Taylor, Robert, 21

Titus, James G., 56

Topper, Klaus, 9

Trager, Ann, 131

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